[pypy-dev] Waf benchmark

2011-04-11 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
Hello. I propose the waf benchmark removal. Originally, the idea was that we're slower than CPython for no good reason. Now that this benchmark measures some obscure piece of stdlib time (subprocesses) I don't think it's that necessary. Besides: * the variation between runs is too big, so we

[pypy-dev] translationmodules option failing

2011-04-11 Thread pypy
Hi just tried to bootstrap myself in the quickest way possible via the --translationmodules option (cmdline below) and encountered an issue with the md5 module which appears to be renamed _md5. the patch below corrects this. while there was an md5 directory present in my tree it only

[pypy-dev] benchunix.py fixes

2011-04-11 Thread pypy
Hi bench-unix.py did not work so i did q quick repair job and enhancement on a small bit of the code, included as 3 patches below. i seem to recall someone mentioning that this was depreciated however as a new user it was tempting to use it as it was the first thing i saw and is a nice quick

[pypy-dev] File overwriting (--output flag to translate.py)

2011-04-11 Thread pypy
Hi again i have been compiling a bunch of different pypy instances with different levels of optimizations and features and found that if i run pypy-c from the current directory and dont specify a new output filename it will attempt to and fail to overwrite pypy-c due to the file being in use.

[pypy-dev] Licensing of PyPy Speed Logo Artwork

2011-04-11 Thread Samuel Reis
Hello everybody. As fijal asked me to do, I will now clarify the licensing of the PyPy Logo Artwork that was provided by me and is currently in use at speed.pypy.org. Herewith I declare this artwork to be subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license

[pypy-dev] Pre sprint beer session Sunday 24th of April

2011-04-11 Thread Bea During
( emailing this list since I was not allowed to post to pypy-sprint and people don´t seem to use it?) Hi there Since I am travelling to Japan on the 25th of April I will miss the Gothenburg sprint (that was not the original plan but my family had to move our trip because of what happened

[pypy-dev] thinking about the EuroPython sprint

2011-04-11 Thread Laura Creighton
2 days after the conference is not a lot of time. Do we want to rent some space to have a longer sprint? Or is it too late, people will already have booked their plane tickets, or ... Laura ___ pypy-dev@codespeak.net

Re: [pypy-dev] Pre sprint beer session Sunday 24th of April

2011-04-11 Thread Antonio Cuni
On 11/04/11 14:47, Bea During wrote: I still would like to meet up so I invite you to a pre sprint beer session at Bishops Arms pub in central Gothenburg, Sunday 24th of April, starting from 18:00. [cut] p.s. Anto - will miss you there d.s yeah, unfortunately I won't be able to make it :-(

Re: [pypy-dev] The JVM backend and Jython

2011-04-11 Thread Antonio Cuni
Hi Frank, On 30/03/11 04:40, fwierzbi...@gmail.com wrote: [cut] So to my question - just how broken is the JVM backend? Are there workarounds that would allow the Java code to get generated? so, now the jvm (and cli) translation works again. You can just type ./translate.py -b jvm, and the

Re: [pypy-dev] Waf benchmark

2011-04-11 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Maciej, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.com wrote: I propose the waf benchmark removal. Given that its speed is at 1 for CPython, 1 for PyPy without JIT, 1 for PyPy with JIT, it seems rather pointless indeed, at least for us. Armin

Re: [pypy-dev] translationmodules option failing

2011-04-11 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:44 PM, p...@pocketnix.org wrote: -     struct, md5, cStringIO, array])) +     struct, _md5, cStringIO, array])) Thanks! Applied. Armin ___ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev

Re: [pypy-dev] File overwriting (--output flag to translate.py)

2011-04-11 Thread Armin Rigo
Re-Hi, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:45 PM, p...@pocketnix.org wrote: +        # Ensure the file does not exisit else we fail at end of translation +        if os.path.isfile(drv.exe_name): +            raise ValueError('File ' + drv.exe_name+ ' already exisits (--output)') Sadly everyone so

Re: [pypy-dev] Pre sprint beer session Sunday 24th of April

2011-04-11 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Bea, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Antonio Cuni anto.c...@gmail.com wrote: session at Bishops Arms pub in central Gothenburg, Sunday 24th of April, Good, it will be nice to see you again Bea! Armin ___ pypy-dev@codespeak.net

Re: [pypy-dev] thinking about the EuroPython sprint

2011-04-11 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Laura, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: 2 days after the conference is not a lot of time.  Do we want to rent some space to have a longer sprint?  Or is it too late, people will already have booked their plane tickets, or ... As far as I'm concerned,

Re: [pypy-dev] Waf benchmark

2011-04-11 Thread Stefan Behnel
Maciej Fijalkowski, 11.04.2011 11:53: I propose the waf benchmark removal. Originally, the idea was that we're slower than CPython for no good reason. Now that this benchmark measures some obscure piece of stdlib time (subprocesses) I don't think it's that necessary. Besides: * the

Re: [pypy-dev] Waf benchmark

2011-04-11 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: Maciej Fijalkowski, 11.04.2011 11:53: I propose the waf benchmark removal. Originally, the idea was that we're slower than CPython for no good reason. Now that this benchmark measures some obscure piece of stdlib

Re: [pypy-dev] thinking about the EuroPython sprint

2011-04-11 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:46:25 +0200, Armin Rigo writes: Hi Laura, On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: 2 days after the conference is not a lot of time. =A0Do we want to rent s= ome space to have a longer sprint? =A0Or is it too late, people will